On December 30, Jammu and Kashmir police announced that three “terrorists” had been killed in an overnight “encounter” in the Lawaypora are...
On December 30, Jammu and Kashmir police announced that three “terrorists” had been killed in an overnight “encounter” in the Lawaypora area on the outskirts of Srinagar. The encounter, according to a police statement, had started on the evening of December 29 when the Indian Army’s 02 Rashtriya Rifles unit launched a cordon and search operation in the area on the basis of a “specific input”.
The statement said: “The terrorists hurled grenade on the searching party and fired indiscriminately on troops while laying cordon. Search party of 02 RR was heavily fired upon by the terrorists hiding inside the building which was retaliated.”
When this information was received by the police, teams of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Central Reserve Police Force “rushed to the spot”.
According to the police, the operation was suspended was darkness fell in the night and resumed on the morning of December 30. The “encounter” eventually ended at 11.30 am with “all the three hiding terrorists” being killed.
The dead men were named as Ajaz Maqbool Ganie and Ather Mushtaq from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district and Zubair Ahmad Lone from Shopian. They had been identified on the basis of “recoveries” from them, the police said.
Athar Mushtaq Wani, to give him his full name,...
